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XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

Control Message Bar

by Paul Vickery

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

Human-readable Enumeration Meta-data

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Display names and descriptions for enumeration members: a non-intrusive, reliable, localizeable method.

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

by Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

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Alternative to URLDownloadToFile function

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to download files from an HTTP server.

XSL Transform Code Generator for Visual Studio .NET

by Chris Stefano

A custom tool for Visual Studio .NET which runs an XSL transformation to generate code

LineNumbers for the RichTextBox

by nogChoco

LineNumbers that dock to a RichTextBox or show as an overlay on top of it

DataGridView Event Sequences

by Zasky

A useful tool to help you understand DataGridView events as you navigate the DataGridView

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Visual Studio 2005

XColorSpectrumCtrl - a non-MFC color picker control that displays a color spectrum

4 Apr 2008 by Hans Dietrich

XColorSpectrumCtrl displays a color spectrum that allows user selection, and provides APIs for color based on RGB and HSL color models.

Control Message Bar

23 Oct 2008 by Paul Vickery

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

Human-readable Enumeration Meta-data

8 Mar 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Display names and descriptions for enumeration members: a non-intrusive, reliable, localizeable method.

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

19 Jul 2007 by Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

AJAX-enabled Name Selector User Control

24 Aug 2009 by Steve Krile

Fully AJAX-enabled user control used to select names from a database in a drop-down format.

SQL-Server-2005

Attaching a Virtual Branch to the Logical Tree in WPF

6 May 2007 by Josh Smith

Reviews a pattern which enables new possibilities for data binding.

Data Debugger Visualizer

30 May 2005 by dotnetdan

VS 2005 debug visualizers for DataSet, DataTable, DataView, DataRow and DataColumn objects.

Flyout - A great way to save space on your webpage

4 Dec 2007 by Ned Thompson

This article will demo how a free Flyout can help to save space on your webpage.

API-Less INI File Wrapper

5 Nov 2008 by Tolgahan ALBAYRAK

Read, Write, Save INI files without using Windows APIs.

Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 1)

31 May 2016 by William Hey

Classical number theories

XBreadCrumbBar - Draw breadcrumb trail with hyperlinks and HTML

7 Aug 2007 by Hans Dietrich

XBreadCrumbBar is a windowless non-MFC class that allows you to display a breadcrumb trail as HTML text, with support for web links and APP: links.

Find File in Solution

28 Mar 2010 by Alex Blekhman

Find any file in solution using incremental search and advanced filtering

Implement an Autoplay Handler

18 Sep 2006 by Tim Almdal

Implementing an Autoplay handler in C#.

GPS Receivers, Geodesy, and Geocaching: Vincenty’s Formula

9 Jan 2008 by Mike Gavaghan

Vincenty's Formula is an iterative solution for calculating the distance and direction between two points along the surface of Earth.

How to Test a Class Which Uses DispatcherTimer

14 Jul 2007 by Josh Smith

Demonstrates how to create unit tests for a class which uses a DispatcherTimer.

Vista Goodies in C++: Monitoring the Computer's Power Status

29 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn

How to use power status notifications to make your applications conserve power when necessary.

Addin Manager for VS 2002-2005

21 Mar 2007 by peterchen

Full control over addins loaded into VS2002-2005 - for power users or addin developers

LINQ To Google Image and Google Groups

8 May 2007 by Ming.Chen

A LINQ Implementation for Google Images/Groups Search

Introduction to Creating Dynamic Types with Reflection.Emit: Part 2

1 May 2006 by jconwell

Part 2 of an introduction to creating dynamic types. This article shows how to actually generate the methods in a dynamic type and how to call them.

Basic Instrumentation and Profiling Framework for C++

9 Oct 2008 by Paul M Watt

Macro based framework written for C++ applications that will allow basic instrumentation and profiling features

Nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker

17 Aug 2009 by vic_ch2000

A nullable datetime column in .NET DataGrid with DateTimePicker.

Deadlock Detection in Existing Code

11 Jan 2008 by eransha

The article briefly discusses deadlocks behavior, and presents an easy way to detect them.

Session of low-level optimization of memory usage in C++ programs with total exposure

22 Jun 2009 by Victor A. Milokum, Apriorit Inc

In this article, we will try to make our algorithms work faster using the methods of low-level optimization of memory allocation in C++.

Get DataBase Connection Strings in Easy Way

16 Feb 2011 by jim lahey

Or you could just pop over to:http://www.connectionstrings.com/[^]Use the exhaustive samples they provide and not hard code your connection strings by using a standard .NET configuration file:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1xtk877y.aspx[^]

Generate Sample XML from XSD

8 Jun 2012 by Joshi, Rushikesh

This is an alternative for "Generate Sample XML from XSD".

Switching threads

16 Sep 2007 by Rajasekharan Vengalil

How to switch the thread that a routine is running on.

Slink Framework - Strongly Typed URLs for ASP.NET

4 Sep 2007 by Brian Chavez

Slink is a code generating Framework that generates type safe URLs for ASP.NET. With Slink URLs, you increase code quality, increase maintainability, and get compile time checking of your URLs in all your ASPX pages (code-behind and non-codebehind).

XSL 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 in .NET

18 Oct 2018 by Gavin Sinai

Using the open source Saxon library, .NET programmers can benefit from XSL 2.0 and XQuery 1.0.

DataBind ComboBox Failures and More

4 Feb 2010 by daylightdj

When using DisplayMember / ValueMember on a ComboBox, this problem often occurs.

A Study of Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Automated Measuring Systems using VB.NET

24 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Gage R&R using VB.NET.

DataTableAdapter

4 Nov 2006 by Craig G. Wilson

How to flatten collections for an ObjectDataSource using the Adapter Pattern.

Writing MATLAB to C converter: Parser and Code Generator created with Bison/Flex

21 Nov 2017 by Shmuel Safonov

Using Bison/Flex for creation of the code convertor from subset of MATLAB language to C code. The converter is used for building native applications and libraries from MATLAB code.

TableDataSource - Binding DataTable to Rich Data Controls

20 Jun 2007 by brtnik

Binding DataTable to Rich Data Controls

SharePoint 2007 Flash Animation Web Part

11 Jun 2007 by Mahdi Abdulhamid

SharePoint 2007 Flash Animation Web Part

Managing Microsoft Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) using "Team Foundation Sidekicks"

21 Jul 2012 by Juan Manuel Elosegui

A plug-in that allows you to "destroy" items from TFVC using the "Team Foundation Sidekicks" tool.

Using Amazon FPS (WinForms, ASP.NET, and C#)

21 Dec 2007 by Keng_Mycos

Using Amazon FPS as an alternate to Paypal and Google Checkout.

Semi-Prime Ordered Sequences (Part 2)

31 May 2016 by William Hey

Semi-Prime Ordered Sequences (Part 2) is the follow-on to “Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 1)” and describes a process for ordering the semi-prime base sequences.

Using Nhibernate in VB.NET

7 Jan 2008 by S.SRIVATHSAN

Implementation Nhibernate concept in VB.NET

How to get the correct file time in C# in .NET Framework 2.0

9 Jan 2009 by pablodg

Workaround to get the correct LocalDateTime of files no matter which date settings your computer has.

Memory and time efficient Levenshtein algorithm

29 Jun 2012 by Horatiu-Andrei Stoianovici

This is an alternative for "Fast, memory efficient Levenshtein algorithm"

Basic Help on NxBRE (Rule Engine)

16 Dec 2014 by Suvabrata Roy

Here is a help on NxBRE (Rule Engine) for basic business rules

DataCube

24 Aug 2018 by darkoman

C# implementation of the serverless OLAP engine

The Amazingly Forgotten 2-Way .NET Rijndael CryptoStream

29 Aug 2009 by _Khallaf

How To Do Precise 2-Way Rijndael CryptoStream Communication

Shortcut: Open Containing Folder

20 Nov 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Open the Folder of current file with a simple keystroke

How To Hide Or Show .NET Tabs Programmatically

20 Nov 2011 by Bernhard Hiller

That's far too obscure.All you need to do is store a reference to the TabPage instance which was removed from the TabPages collection of the TabControl. You may use the form where the TabControl is placed for that purpose.You could also create your own TabControl which has an extra property...

Exploring Computational Number Theory (Part 3)

26 Mar 2018 by William Hey

Factoring classic integers

Handling connection notification between a desktop machine and Windows CE based devices

14 Jan 2009 by Anil_gupta

This article describes how to get notification when a Windows CE based device is connected or disconnected from a desktop machine.

UITestBench, a lightweight UI testing library

3 Apr 2008 by slkr171

This article describes how to build a lightweight test bench for testing user interfaces which are written entirely in C#/.NET, using NUnit or any other unit test framework.

I do not know the name of the problem.......

4 Nov 2010 by shakil0304003

I think, every time your page has a server request, it create the LinkButton. I think it does not need & it may be the reason of this problem. You can try this.protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (!IsPostBack) { LinkButton...

MobileLPR - An LPR Client for .NET Compact Framework 2.0

15 Dec 2010 by EFEaglehouse

Windows CE/Mobile printing client for LPR, LPRng, and Socket API.

Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'string'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

28 Sep 2012 by Bernhard Hiller

The problem is here:public object verifyAllocDest(string destination)For a quick fix (very dirty!) replace object by string.A better solution involves an enum: you return one of three possible values.Hence definepublic enum AllocDestResult{ HasRows, HasNoRows, ...

Custom TreeView Layout in WPF

12 Sep 2014 by Jan Bakker

This is an alternative for "Custom TreeView Layout in WPF"

Getting All "Special Folders" via VB.NET

12 Apr 2016 by Jalapeno Bob

A VB.NET version of Ray Koopa's 21 Mar 2016 article, Getting All "Special Folders" in .NET

Custom MessageBox with checkbox

11 Sep 2016 by Avatar2400

This is a simple class that allows you to have message box with checkbox and other small features.

WMP Power Hour APP

31 Jul 2007 by Froz3n

Using the Windows Media Player Component

Bare bones SourceSafe journal monitor

6 Sep 2008 by David Catriel

A simple and straightforward tool to monitor and report SourceSafe database changes.

BlackBerry Java Application Development Using Visual Studio

22 Feb 2009 by Ponnurangam D

BlackBerry Java application development using Visual Studio.

loan calculator code in vs2005

20 May 2010 by Christian Graus

VS2005 is a platform, not a language. This is trivial code, whatever your language. If it's homework, do it yourself. If you need it for yourself, that's why we programmers do it as a job, we take money from people like you.

Auto Attach Debugger VS .net 2005 in Windows 7/64bit with IIS 7.5

5 Sep 2010 by Phatak

Fortunately I found the solution for that.For attaching Debugger with Asp.Net and Visual Studio 2005you have to close all windows of Microsoft internet explorer before start debugging the application

Plugin in vb.net/c#.net

12 May 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

The architecture of FireFox extensions is quite far from .NET. Extensions do not hook up any native CPU code (not mentioning .NET managed code). They are hosted by FireFox itself; it makes them platform-independent and safe — any uncontrolled access to OS is excluded.The developed...

(Memory and Resource) Leak Detection for WinCE

23 May 2012 by Sergeant Kolja

This is an alternative for "Memory leak detection for WinCE".

A good practice for mapping TFS collections on local path

7 Jun 2012 by Mario Majčica

A well justified practice for mapping TFS collections on your local PC.

How does CTime actually "apply" DST?

19 Jun 2012 by Richard MacCutchan

The answer is, never store times and/or dates as strings. The only valid way to track times correctly is always to store them as UTC values. That means the timestamp is an accurate representation of the real universal time that your event occurred and is correct forever. When you want to display...

Creating SQL Joins in Simple Steps

20 Sep 2012 by Sreedhar Puligundla

Simple steps to create SQL joins by using SQL Server 2008 Management Studio

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The best overloaded method match for 'clsCommon.FnUpdatedAccessNo(string, string, string, string)' has some invalid arguments

27 Sep 2012 by Dain Ucak

your FnUpdatedAccessNo methods first parameter is string. but Session["User_id"] is an object type. you must to convert it like this.And dont forget when it was null it wont convert, check its nullablestring userId = "";if(Session["User_id"] != null)userId =...

Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'string'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

28 Sep 2012 by fjdiewornncalwe

public object verifyAllocDest(string destination)needs to bepublic string verifyAllocDest(string destination)orverifydest_result = verifyAllocDest(TextBoxDest.Text.Trim()).ToString();

Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL

14 Oct 2013 by Demid Korneev

Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL

Integrate your SharePoint environment into the open standards-based WebSphere Portal platform using the Visual Studio IDE

14 Dec 2007 by Jonas_Martinsson

Introduction to Mainsoft's SharePoint Federator for WebSphere Portal, a Visual Studio®-based software development kit (SDK) that enables you to deliver an integrated user experience across Microsoft® SharePoint sites, .NET and Java™ applications, without sacrificing your workgroup's autonomy.

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Unraveling the Netflix API - Part IV - Managing User Account Information

28 Feb 2010 by NetDave

Demonstrates how to manage a Netflix subscriber's movie queue

Clear textboxes in a dialog

14 Jun 2010 by Henry Minute

If your login form verifies the user and password then simply set myUserIDTextBox.Text = ""; etc after verification but before closing/hiding the login form.If the login form simply passes the UserID and Password to the main form for verification then store the information in private...

Personalize .NET Configuration Files with NANT

20 Sep 2010 by Florian DREVET

Brings you the ability to personalize your configuration files per developer, per machine, per configuration...

Populating a Listbox from the desired column in a particular table

19 Sep 2010 by Jürgen Röhr

Hi,assumin...

How to solve the flicker problem when the control is put on a scroll window ?(WM/WINCE, not WIN32)

2 Nov 2010 by Chen_Zhuo

Still no answer? That's really sad. :(( I finally found a solution by myself, it's a little ugly but it work. My solution is using my own scrolling function instead of the system's, following is detail1. Overrides CScrollview::OnScrollBy, the core part of scrolling is implemented by this...

13 Jan 2011 by Kasson

right-click on the Details section, select "Insert Section Below" from the menu. That should split the section into a "Details a" and "Details b". Then, right-click the "Details a" section and select "Section Expert..." from the menu.

13 Jan 2011 by Аslam Iqbal

All about Crystal Report? go to: Step by Step Creation of Crystal Report using its features Group, Graph, Cross-Tab and Sub report.[^]It may help you all the ways.

List of Tables of Microsoft Access DataBase

17 Feb 2011 by dontumindit

While dealing with databases, sometimes there is a need to get a list of tables in the application

Get DataBase Connection Strings in Easy Way

3 Mar 2011 by crocks256

The ConnectionStringBuilder classes in .NET can be quite handy...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlconnectionstringbuilder.aspx[^].

Common calling interface to functions in unrelated classes

17 Mar 2011 by Yusuf

Disclaimer: I don't like to post second answer unless it is radically different from the first. But in this case the discussion needs more space and explanation, so I am posting it as Answer.You said: Yes, so every time it calls one of the functions it has to check which one is...

Beginner Projects for Visual C# with VS/SQL 2005

16 May 2011 by #realJSOP

You don't "switch between layers". The layers are intended to abstract those functional parts out from each other.

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iframe not work in Firefox browser

15 Nov 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

It certainly does work with Firefox. There is nothing special you should do about it. However, nobody knows what did you screw up.—SA

How to handle ASP.Net application Errors like failed to connect to Database

17 Dec 2011 by virang_21

There are quite a few things you can do.1> In your code use try..catch..finally block.pulic void someFunction(){ try { //your business logic here } catch(Exception ex) { // Log your exception....

how stop the printer after print the Last line in the crystal report (VS2005)

24 Sep 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

It's a really bad idea to try to control a printer directly, especially with CrystallReports. You should think in terms of a document, and always try to print the whole document. If a user wants to print just part of the document, that user can choose to do it at the level of the print dialog,...

Operator '+' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'method group'

27 Sep 2012 by fjdiewornncalwe

TextBoxDest.Text.Trim should be TextBoxDest.Text.Trim() andTextBoxRef.Text.Trim should be TextBoxRef.Text.Trim()

how to detect the services in vc++

25 Mar 2013 by Jochen Arndt

See the EnumServicesStatusEx[^] API function.

how to detect the services in vc++

25 Mar 2013 by Maxim Kartavenkov

That is very easy, you just need to use 2 WinAPI: OpenSCManager and EnumServicesStatus. First one is used to obtain service control manager handle, and the second one to enumerate services based on given status and type.Regards,Maxim.

How are we send the element of multi-dimensional array?

13 Jun 2013 by Matthew Faithfull

Richard is right. It's a it unusual but you can do it.JGSurface m_pJGraphicSurface[2][4];JGSurface* pFirstRow = m_pJGraphicSurface[0];JGSurface* pSecondRow = m_pJGraphicSurface[1];It's unusual because if we only have 2 of something and that is a constant then they are very...

Why Exception from dialog don't fix by try-catch

19 Jan 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

First of all, don't try-catch exceptions too locally. It should be done only in cases when you know exact exception type and need to recover from exception in some semantics-specific way. But basically, you should catch all exception on the main even cycle of the UI thread. This is how:Set...

WSSizer, a .NET re-size control

11 Oct 2006 by Gammill

A .NET control meant to accomplish a task similar to MFC’s CRectTacker().

Making Sense of Geographic Data with Dundas Map and AJAX

12 Oct 2006 by yshrestha

Creating data rich maps is a challenge. Making them easy to manipulate further complicates this task. Learn how to overcome both of these challenges using Dundas Map's AJAX-driven zooming, panning, and navigation functionalities, and how to add further interactivity to your Dundas Map applications.

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Digital Signatures and PDF Documents

30 Apr 2007 by Frank Rem

PDFKit.NET 2.0 is a 100% .NET (verifiable) component for creating and manipulating PDF documents. In this article I will focus on its digital signature capabilities. Digital signatures can be used to authenticate the source of a PDF document, and to provide the integrity of a PDF document.

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NetMX - a JMX port to the .NET world

10 Mar 2008 by Szymon Pobiega

An introduction to NetMX - a lightweight .NET management solution.

Using Information Retrieval Techniques as an Alternative to Commercial Web Services

14 Aug 2008 by Yasser M. Jaffal

In this article, I discuss an example of how you can use information retrieval to grab data out of MSN Money pages to get a free Web Service for currency exchange rates and other quotes.

TFS Proxy Efficiency Testing

26 Sep 2008 by Max Paulousky

This article describes MS TFS Proxy efficiency testing depending on the internet channel rate between TFS and TFS Proxy, TFS commands, and TFS Proxy cache state. Also, this article describes the advantages of using the MS TFS Proxy on slow Internet channels.

Introduction to Programming with LEADTOOLS .NET OCR - Multi-threaded OCR SDK for 32 and 64 Bit Development

7 Jan 2013 by LEADTOOLS Support

Introduce you to the key features of the new .NET OCR classes, provide you with a step-by-step approach for creating an OCR application, and provide you with sample code.

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Gender Aware Localization in ASP.NET

21 Apr 2009 by Talya Gendler

Implementing localization which depends on the gender of the registered user (ASP.NET).

Unraveling the Netflix API - Part II - Accessing the Netflix Title Catalog

9 Sep 2009 by NetDave

Demonstrates how to access the Netflix Catalog resources

Unraveling the Netflix API - Part III - Accessing Subscriber Account Information

9 Sep 2009 by NetDave

Demonstrates how to access the Netflix subscriber's account information

Compiling C Programs in VS.NET 2005

18 Nov 2009 by Sadheesh R

When I try to compile a C Program in VS.NET 2005, I get the below mentioned errors:Linking...btrapi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WBRQSHELLINIT@4 referenced in function _RQSHELLINIT@4btrapi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _BTRCALL@28 referenced in function _BTR

Compiling C Programs in VS.NET 2005

24 Nov 2009 by Richard MacCutchan

As I said previously you have some libraries missing from your build settings. Check where you have stored the BTRIEVE library files and either add the path to the Linker properties for the project, or add it to the Lib directories for Visual Studio.

unresolved external symbol "unsigned int (__stdcall* ATL::g_pfnGetThreadACP)(void)" (?g_pfnGetThreadACP@ATL@@3P6GIXZA) - In VS 2005

11 Dec 2009 by GangaSungar

Hello Everyone,I am trying to create a .DLL using VS 2005. While linking, I am getting the following error;-----------------------------------------------------------------------error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "unsigned int (__stdcall* ATL::g_pfnGetThreadACP)(void)"...